Celebrity hospital says 'No' to abortion and contraception | the Daily Mail
Doctors are to be forbidden from providing contraceptives and abortion referrals at a Roman Catholic hospital popular with celebrity mothers.
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They will not be able to offer any service which conflicts with Catholic teaching on either the value of human life or on sexual ethics.
This includes referring on women who inquire at the hospital about contraception, the morning-after pill and abortion.
The code will also ban the amniocentesis procedure to detect Down's syndrome in unborn children and provision of IVF services.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, ordered the code to be revised in 2005, after it was revealed that GPs had been prescribing the morning-after pill and referring patients for abortions.
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A spokesman for the Restituta Group, which has been campaigning to retain the Catholic identity of the hospital, welcomed the code.
Nicholas Bellord, the group's secretary, said the previous code was "regularly ignored". He admitted critics believed the hospital would be 'unworkable' under the strict rules.
But he added: "Once in place [the code] will be a very marketable concept to those within and without the church who are attracted by a hospital where there is no deliberate destruction of human life from conception to natural death."
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